She is as famous for tantrums as for her catwalk career - and now Naomi Campbell has revealed she is still struggling with anger management and her efforts are very much a "work in progress"... more
Societe Generale shares traded in Frankfurt recovered some ground after the bank's head sought to reassure investors that a host of rumours that wiped 15 per cent off its stock were unfounded... more
Forget the tennis players. The real winners at Wimbledon are almost certainly the estate agents, who claim a grand slam of nearly £15 million in sales in Wimbledon village in the past two months... more
ABC monthly circulation figures for paid-for newspapers, released on Friday, are set to be tough. The total market for existing titles is expected to be down around 5.5% in May against a year earlier - with little bounce from the Royal Wedding and death of Osama bin Laden... more
Hurry, hurry: Barclays is paying 7% interest. That's a fair whack above the average 0.5% banks are paying out to savings customers, and even more generous than NS&I's new inflation-beating savings certificate. Oh, but hang on...... more
Gerald Ronson says his 230-metre Heron Tower in Bishopsgate cost £500 million to build but will be worth £600 million when full of tenants. That will make him happy... more
Anyone wading through the thousands of pages of submissions to Sir John Vickers' Commission on Banking will appreciate this "glossary of terms" floating around the City... more
George Osborne is feeling pretty smug — as only he can — about his decision to set up the Office for Budget Responsibility and to let the Treasury Select Committee approve the appointment of Robert Chote as its head... more
Red faces at The Guardian. Columnist Tetsuya Ishikawa is described “a freelance writer and the author of How I Caused the Credit Crunch” - no mention there of City sex, brothels and excess... more
PR Week magazine has unveiled its Power Book of the most influential public relations practitioners, based partly on the opinions of “20 senior professional journalists”, and there are a few surprises... more
“We got past Pearl Harbor, we will win the war, and it's going slightly our way,” was how investment guru Warren Buffett is describing the economic fightback... more
With a new series of Dragons’ Den returning to our screens in the summer, executive producer Sam Lewens has an "interesting" time with the BBC show's big hitters... more
Mobile phone users are accustomed to rogue emails and text messages, claiming to be from their phone company, but actually containing nasty software from a nefarious third party. What they’re not so used to is getting nasty stuff from the phone company itself.. ... more
City Spy is sure most of the 5000 or so Lehman Brothers employees wondering where their next
all-expenses-paid lunch is coming from, will spare a thought for ousted US chief executive Joe Gregory... more
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